Countdown to 65

Experiences

  1. Tour of Amazon’s warehouse – Countdown Finale
  2. Go to an opera – Madama Butterfly
  3. Tickets for Carmen – Carmen
  4. Go to a ballet – Cinderella
  5. Attend a masked ball – Fat Tuesday Masked Ball
  6. Watch an international cricket match hopefully at the Oval – Ladies Day & More Cricket We have taken a tour of the Oval – Capital Day, and would love to see a match there, but our 1st Internationals were at the lovely Ageas Bowl.
  7. Visit the War of the Worlds Experience – Martian Landing
  8. Experience an Ashes tour – Ladies Day
  9. Visit the Postal Museum – London daytrip
  10. Have a home movie night with my siblings (dig out our late parents cine films and slides of us as kids) – Reminiscing
  11. Visit the Underground Railway Museum – London daytrip
  12. Visit the Cheese Bar – Pick & Cheese
  13. Visit the Sky garden in London – Six in the City
  14. Take a tour of Chatham Dockyards, including the set of Call the Midwife – Chatham Historic Dockyards
  15. Try sushi – Southwark 
  16. Musical Six – Six in the City
  17. Curry in Brick Lane – 60’s Club heads up to town
  18. Run 5k race for life – Run of my life
  19. Visit the Globe – More London
  20. Tickets for Witness for the Prosecution – Capital Day
  21. Bletchley Park – Milton Keynes
  22. Purton hulks – Gloucester
  23. Minack theatre – Cornish Road Trip
  24. Eden project – Cornwall Part Deux
  25. Lost gardens of Heligan – Cornish Finale
  26. Titanic Experience – More Exploring
  27. Gobbins Cliff Path – Belfast
  28. The Giant Causeway – Belfast
  29. Experience the Edinburgh Festival – Edfringe
  30. Watch the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  31. Try an Escape Room – Escape Room & Incarcerated 
  32. Portmeirion village – Wales
  33. Have an Oggi in St David’s – Wales
  34. Tour Westminster Abbey – London Town
  35. Visit the Imperial War Museum – Imperial War Museum 
  36. Visit the theatre more – Curtains Up, Let the Shows Go On
  37. Experience the Lord Mayors Parade – Lord Mayor of London

    Uk Travel

  38. Walk at least part of Hadrians Wall – Fabfourwalkhadrianswall
  39. Visit Belfast – Belfast, More Exploring & That’s a wrap
  40. Visit Whitby Abbey – Fiftyshadesofretirement
  41. Discover the West Country – Cornish Road Trip , Cornwall Part Deux & Cornish Finale
  42. Explore Bristol – Bristol
  43. Revisit Warwickshire –Weekend in Warwickshire
  44. Explore the Jurassic Coast – Road Trip Dorset
  45. Take another tour of Wales – Wales
  46. Discover the history of Portsmouth – Road Trip Portsmouth
  47. Explore the Houses of Parliament – Palaces and Royals
  48. Visit more of the UK’s Historic Houses, Palaces and Gardens – Memberships 

    Tasks at Home

  49. Get out on our bikes – Wales
  50. Have the odd date night – Countdown update
  51. Make a memory box (too many tickets, brochures, & maps scattered around the house) – Countdown Finale
  52. Drink less – Countdown update
  53. Walk more – Countdown update
  54. Set myself a monthly clothes budget & try not exceed it – Countdown Finale
  55. Take control of our garden (I’m a bit of a fair weather gardener) Garden Redesign
  56. New hairstyle – Countdown update

    Overseas Travel

  57. Visit Berlin – Drei Tage In Berlin
  58. Experience the wonders of Krakow – Krakow
  59. Visit Auschwitz – Auschwitz & Birkenhau 
  60. Visit our friends on the lovely island of Crete – Living the Dream
  61. Explore Dubai – Dubai
  62. See Vesuvius & find Pompeii Up Pompeii
  63. Tour the historic beaches of Normandy – 80th Anniversary of the D Day Landings & Our Journey Continued 
  64. Visit Copenhagen – Four days in Copenhagen
  65. Explore the Norwegian Fjords – Ahoy There & Norwegian Fjords